Photographs capture United 747-400 tyre failure
A United 747-400 departing Sydney on October 20 suffered tyre failure on takeoff, remarkably captured here by Australian Aviation reader Quoc Mach Nguyen. The aircraft, operating UA840 with 227 passengers and 14 crew aboard, returned to Sydney one and a half hours later after dumping fuel. The emergency landing and closure of the runway as
TBM 850 strips down for NBAA
DAHER-SOCATA is displaying a TBM 850 in a polished aluminium finish at this week’s NBAA convention in Las Vegas, which it says demonstrates its ability to meet unique customer personalisation requests. Says the company: “To meet this customer personalisation request involved extra work time and research. The consequences of a bare metal finish needed to
Scoot advances Perth flights
Scoot has brought forward its launch of services to Perth by one week to December 12, due, the low-cost airline says, to “massive interest” after announcing the new services last week. “Buoyed by a huge number of bookings received since sales opened last Wednesday, Scoot will now operate four additional flights starting on 12th December. These
G650 sets new round-the-world record
A Gulfstream G650 has set a new round-the-world record in claiming the mantle of the fastest westbound time for a non-supersonic aircraft of 41 hours 7 minutes. Gulfstream says the aircraft recorded an average speed of 915km/h for the 20,310nm, three-stop flight, which departed on its first leg from San Diego’s Brown Field Municipal Airport at
Bombardier begins Learjet 75 “delivery process”
Bombardier has had a ceremonial delivery of the first customer Learjet 75. The manufacturer had hoped to formally deliver the aircraft ahead of this week’s NBAA convention but was forced to hold a ceremonial delivery – to customers Louis Beck and London Air Services – as US FAA certification for the aircraft was delayed by
Latitude “on schedule” – Cessna
Cessna says its mid-size Latitude business jet is “on schedule” to make its first flight in the first quarter of 2014. “We have nearly finished with the Latitude wing, and the Latitude fuselage is almost complete,” said Terry Shriner, Cessna business leader for the Latitude, in an update the manufacturer released for the NBAA convention this
